incompetent

b. Inadequate for or unsuited to a particular purpose or application: “Because so many diseases fluctuate randomly over time, patients sometimes spontaneously improve despite incompetent treatment”(Richard A. Friedman).

c. Not functioning properly in the body: an incompetent heart valve.

Law

a. Not legally qualified, as testimony that does not meet the standards for admissibility or a juror whose personal interest in the outcome of the case does not allow him or her to serve.

Sentence Examples

The Parkside men in blue were noth­ing but a bunch of incompetent misfits who should all be fired, so continued the tirade.

Neglecting both his see and his professor - ship, to which latter he appointed a deputy described as highly incompetent, he withdrew to Calgarth Park, in his native county, where he occupied himself in forming plantations and in the improvement of agriculture.

In the next year Matteo, being judged incompetent to rule, was assassinated by order of his brothers, who made an equal partition of their subject citiesBernab residing in Milan, Galeazzo in Pavia.

In this way, the attributes are suggestively allotted among the four traditional proofs; 7 but we miss an explicit rebutting of Kant's hostile assumption, that it is incompetent for us to take the thought of God piecemeal.

Evoked to the royal court a prosecution for abduction pending before the archbishop of Tarragona, declaring that the archbishop and the official were incompetent to judge noblemen.